Improvement in floats for anglers



www I ateut JOHN A. TERRELL, OF BLOOMFIELI), KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND C. A. TERRELL.

Letters Patent No. 86,609, lated FQbrua/ry 2. 1 869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOATS FOR ANGLERS.

l The Schedule referred to :in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it 'may conce/m.-

Be it known that I, J ons" A. TERRELL, of Bloom! field, in the county of Nelson, and State of Kentucky,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Floats for Lines Used in Angling; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference'being had to the annexed drawing,

making part of this specification, in whichr Figure l is a side elevation;

Figure 2is a vertical section; and

Figure 3 is also a vertical section.

The same letters in all the figures are used to indicate identical parts.

My improvement relates to such floats as are used for buoying lines used in angling; and

My invention consists in constructing such float of glass, made hollow, and either transparent, or so olL ored as to assimilate to the color of the water in which they are to be used.,

Floats cannot be advantageously used in very clear water in angling for very shy fish, such as trout, bass, 85e., because, when theyseize the bait andbegin to move oft' with it, before swallowing it, they are liable to be alarmed by an opaque cork, or other float, following them through the water, and so abandon the bait without getting the hook into their mouths. 'Io obviate this, I propose to use iloats of the ordinary form, but made of glass, either colored or tinged tov assimilate to the color of the water in streams where they are to be used. These oats being transparent, are less liable to be observed by and so alarm the fish.

The float A is blown to about the form shown in the drawings, or to any other convenient or ordinary form.

V It has a point aty the upper end, round and regular in form, resembling the upper stem of the angleris ordinarycork float.

The line B is confined to the upper stem by an elastic collar of India rubber'or quill, embracing the line, and compressing it against the stem of the cork, so as to hold it in place.

A loop or eye is formed in the lower end of the oat, as shown at D. This may be done by either making the float with a slim stem, which, on being heated, may be bent to form a loop, as shown in fig. 2, or an eye may be formed in an enlargement at the end of the stem, as shown in tig. 3.

The line B is carried downward from this loop or eye, through which it passes.

Instead of confining the line V,to the top of the float, it may be secured to the lower end of the float, and carried off to one side, as shown in iig. ll, at B.

The glass Amust have within it a sufficient air-cham-A ber to give it buoyancy, and at the same time the walls should be. thick enough to t it for ordinary use.

What I claim jas my inventon,'aud desire to secure Y by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a float for sustaining the line in angling, made of glass, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I haveI signed my name to this specification, in ythe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. TERRELL.

Witnesses:

T. H. MILEs, WM. A. TERREM.. 

